It has been disappointing this morning, and a Saturday makes it worse for many in eCommerce. However as stated, a 99.9% uptime which is pretty standard still leaves a lot of potential downtime. Normally problems are quickly resolved, however this appears to have been a larger problem, and I am sure the datacentres will put in place contingencies, should a similar problem occur.

Good news. Global Switch have managed to get their own website back online.

According to their homepage, their tag line is "Global Switch, Always On".

Worth a read.

"Global Switch data centres operate to a Tier III standard or higher. The power infrastructure is designed to ensure robust resilience with "no break" IT power. We constantly invest in power capacity and adopt a policy of pass-through electricity costs based upon consumption only"

No break? Really? I'd love to hear them selling this concept to Claranet/Romancart on Monday morning.

99.99% uptime allows for 52.96 minutes of down time in any 365.25 day period. On this year's performance, I reckon they need to guarantee 100% uptime for approximately seven years in order to put things right.

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